"Lou, I wish I could grow as fast as you..." Capelight Pictures & Blue Fox Ent. have revealed an official US trailer for a nice animal movie titled A Cat's Life, a French "warm-hearted and educational family film." Obviously it's about a cat; the film is adapted from a French novel named "Rroû" about a kitty named Rroû. The film follows the journey of Clémence and her kitty, Rroû, as they leave Paris to spend the holidays in the countryside. While there, Rroû enjoys the wildlife and befriends Câline, a white kitten who prowls in the woods. With a great feel for the moment and breathtaking shots of nature and animals, it captures the friendship between a girl and a cat who both have to learn what it means to grow up. The US version of this renames the cat to "Lou" though the cat still goes out for a thrilling adventure into the woods.
- 2/26/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Corinne Masiero in “Captain Marleau” on MHz Choice
One of the perks of increased time at home for the past few years has been discovering a slew of police/detective TV series dramas from about ten European countries. Their protagonists tend to be less action-oriented and more cerebral/intuitive than ours. Most also have some sort of family baggage or tragic backstory, making them moodier and more complex.
But in “Captain Marleau” (“Capitain Marleau”), we get a French super-cop who breaks the mold in a highly entertaining manner. Corinne Masiero’s eponymous troubleshooting Inspector Marleau has been solving knotty crimes for several years on French TV. Season 4 of her career is about to be released in the U.S. and more of her weird brilliance is just fine with me.
Tall, lanky and looking more like a forest-dwelling hobo than a cop, Marleau thrusts herself into each crime scene with the caustic wit of Dr.
One of the perks of increased time at home for the past few years has been discovering a slew of police/detective TV series dramas from about ten European countries. Their protagonists tend to be less action-oriented and more cerebral/intuitive than ours. Most also have some sort of family baggage or tragic backstory, making them moodier and more complex.
But in “Captain Marleau” (“Capitain Marleau”), we get a French super-cop who breaks the mold in a highly entertaining manner. Corinne Masiero’s eponymous troubleshooting Inspector Marleau has been solving knotty crimes for several years on French TV. Season 4 of her career is about to be released in the U.S. and more of her weird brilliance is just fine with me.
Tall, lanky and looking more like a forest-dwelling hobo than a cop, Marleau thrusts herself into each crime scene with the caustic wit of Dr.
- 7/12/2023
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Veteran French politician Roselyne Bachelot has taken an extraordinary potshot at the French film industry and the state funding system that keeps it afloat in a candid memoir recounting her difficult term as France’s culture minister during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Entitled 682 Jours – Le Bal Des Hypocrites (682 Days – The Hypocrites’ Ball) the book is stirring controversy in France following its publication there on Thursday for Bachelot’s outspoken criticism of the behaviour of everyone from technocrats to small-town councillors to “stars on big salaries” during the health crisis.
In a section on the film industry, Bachelot questioned the efficacy of France’s state funding mechanisms for cinema, suggesting the driving principle of French cultural exception resulted in films that were of no interest to the general public.
“The famous ‘Cultural Exception’ in fact allows very many French films ‘not to find their public’, to put it politely, or more explicitly,...
Entitled 682 Jours – Le Bal Des Hypocrites (682 Days – The Hypocrites’ Ball) the book is stirring controversy in France following its publication there on Thursday for Bachelot’s outspoken criticism of the behaviour of everyone from technocrats to small-town councillors to “stars on big salaries” during the health crisis.
In a section on the film industry, Bachelot questioned the efficacy of France’s state funding mechanisms for cinema, suggesting the driving principle of French cultural exception resulted in films that were of no interest to the general public.
“The famous ‘Cultural Exception’ in fact allows very many French films ‘not to find their public’, to put it politely, or more explicitly,...
- 1/5/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, writethru: Xavier Giannoli’s Lost Illusions (Illusions Perdues) scooped the Best Film prize at France’s César Awards this evening in Paris. Along with the top honor, the period drama adapted from the Honoré de Balzac classic took a further six statues and was the overall biggest laureate of the evening. (Scroll down for the full list of winners.)
An absent Leos Carax was named Best Director for Annette, his musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard that opened the Cannes Film Festival last year — where Carax was also named Best Director — and which took a total five Césars tonight.
Lost Illusions and Annette led nominations coming into the evening, followed by Valérie Lemercier’s Céline Dion-inspired Aline which converted in the Best Actress category for Lemercier’s titular portrayal.
Cédric Jiminez’s Bac Nord (The Stronghold) was shut out across its seven nominations. A box office success at home,...
An absent Leos Carax was named Best Director for Annette, his musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard that opened the Cannes Film Festival last year — where Carax was also named Best Director — and which took a total five Césars tonight.
Lost Illusions and Annette led nominations coming into the evening, followed by Valérie Lemercier’s Céline Dion-inspired Aline which converted in the Best Actress category for Lemercier’s titular portrayal.
Cédric Jiminez’s Bac Nord (The Stronghold) was shut out across its seven nominations. A box office success at home,...
- 2/25/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Wildlife adventure tale is debut fiction feature of Guillaume Maïdatchevsky
Orange Studio has sealed a raft of deals at the European Film Market on the French-language, live-action family film A Cat’s Life, following the adventures of a city kitten when he heads to the countryside for the summer holidays with his young owner.
It has sold to Germany and Austria (Capelight Pictures), Italy (Koch Media), Japan (Gaga), ex-Yugoslavia (McF), Poland (M2 Films), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Cinemart), Taiwan and airlines (Eagle International). Sun Distribution Group has taken rights for Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Orange Studio head of world...
Orange Studio has sealed a raft of deals at the European Film Market on the French-language, live-action family film A Cat’s Life, following the adventures of a city kitten when he heads to the countryside for the summer holidays with his young owner.
It has sold to Germany and Austria (Capelight Pictures), Italy (Koch Media), Japan (Gaga), ex-Yugoslavia (McF), Poland (M2 Films), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Cinemart), Taiwan and airlines (Eagle International). Sun Distribution Group has taken rights for Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Orange Studio head of world...
- 2/17/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Wildlife adventure tale is debut fiction feature of Guillaume Maïdatchevsky
Orange Studios has sealed a raft of deals at the European Film Market on the French-language, live-action family film A Cat’s Life, following the adventures of a city kitten when he heads to the countryside for the summer holidays with his young owner.
It has sold to Germany and Austria (Capelight Pictures), Italy (Koch Media), Japan (Gaga), ex-Yugoslavia (McF), Poland (M2 Films), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Cinemart), Taiwan and airlines (Eagle International). Sun Distribution Group has taken rights for Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Orange Studios head of world...
Orange Studios has sealed a raft of deals at the European Film Market on the French-language, live-action family film A Cat’s Life, following the adventures of a city kitten when he heads to the countryside for the summer holidays with his young owner.
It has sold to Germany and Austria (Capelight Pictures), Italy (Koch Media), Japan (Gaga), ex-Yugoslavia (McF), Poland (M2 Films), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Cinemart), Taiwan and airlines (Eagle International). Sun Distribution Group has taken rights for Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Orange Studios head of world...
- 2/17/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Orange Studio, the film and TV production and distribution arm of France’s leading telco group, is launching a trio of new projects, “The Nannies,” “The Green Perfume” and “A Cat’s Life,” at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris.
“The Nannies” (“Les femmes du square”), directed by Julien Rambaldi (“Labor Day”), stars Eye Haïdara (“C’est la Vie”) as Angèle, a young undocumented woman in her thirties who lives on the outskirts of Paris. Threatened by gangsters she conned, Angèle decides to leave her neighborhood and starts working as a nanny for Hélène’s 10-year-old son in a chic Parisian area. Although she’s supposed to keep a low profile, Angèle meets other nannies, some of whom are being taken advantage of, and sets out to help them. Haïdara stars in the film opposite Ahmed Sylla (“The Climb”) and Léa Drucker (“Custody”).
“The Nannies” is produced by Les Films du Kiosque,...
“The Nannies” (“Les femmes du square”), directed by Julien Rambaldi (“Labor Day”), stars Eye Haïdara (“C’est la Vie”) as Angèle, a young undocumented woman in her thirties who lives on the outskirts of Paris. Threatened by gangsters she conned, Angèle decides to leave her neighborhood and starts working as a nanny for Hélène’s 10-year-old son in a chic Parisian area. Although she’s supposed to keep a low profile, Angèle meets other nannies, some of whom are being taken advantage of, and sets out to help them. Haïdara stars in the film opposite Ahmed Sylla (“The Climb”) and Léa Drucker (“Custody”).
“The Nannies” is produced by Les Films du Kiosque,...
- 1/12/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
French actor Corinne Masiero’s politically charged strip-tease during the Cesar Awards last month was just one of many protests staged across France to support freelance workers in the film, TV and live event industries that are still crippled by the pandemic.
Labor organization Cgt Spectacle has been spearheading a nation-wide occupation of drama theaters since March 4, and momentum hasn’t died down in the last month, with nearly 100 venues still occupied across France as of April 19.
It all started at the Odeon Theater, which is flooded on Saturdays with freelance artists, crew members, caterers, dancers, costume designers and musicians, among others, all of whom have been out of work for months and fear for their livelihoods, even if most are still protected by unemployment subsidies.
Week after week, the movement is embraced by workers beyond the culture sector, even Gilet Jaunes (the populist yellow-vest protesters), who are demanding the...
Labor organization Cgt Spectacle has been spearheading a nation-wide occupation of drama theaters since March 4, and momentum hasn’t died down in the last month, with nearly 100 venues still occupied across France as of April 19.
It all started at the Odeon Theater, which is flooded on Saturdays with freelance artists, crew members, caterers, dancers, costume designers and musicians, among others, all of whom have been out of work for months and fear for their livelihoods, even if most are still protected by unemployment subsidies.
Week after week, the movement is embraced by workers beyond the culture sector, even Gilet Jaunes (the populist yellow-vest protesters), who are demanding the...
- 4/20/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
One week on, France’s industry is still responding to the hot-button Cesar Awards, the country’s equivalent to the Oscars.
French actor Isabelle Adjani, journalist Caroline Fourest and Rachel Khan, an actor and jurist, collectively wrote an op-ed arguing that the political undertone of some acceptance speeches made during the ceremony are breeding divisions within France.
Published in Elle magazine on Thursday, the letter — which doesn’t name anyone and maintains a fairly ideological tone — suggests that the ceremony’s political edge was detrimental to a sense of togetherness and universalism that, they argue, French cinema should promote.
“Almost everyone delivered a monologue that we expected from [them], as if it was a prerequisite to speak out about ‘our causes,’ or ‘our community,’ or ‘our followers,'” reads the op-ed. “As if it has become impossible to find words that speak to everyone. As if cinema can no longer unite.
French actor Isabelle Adjani, journalist Caroline Fourest and Rachel Khan, an actor and jurist, collectively wrote an op-ed arguing that the political undertone of some acceptance speeches made during the ceremony are breeding divisions within France.
Published in Elle magazine on Thursday, the letter — which doesn’t name anyone and maintains a fairly ideological tone — suggests that the ceremony’s political edge was detrimental to a sense of togetherness and universalism that, they argue, French cinema should promote.
“Almost everyone delivered a monologue that we expected from [them], as if it was a prerequisite to speak out about ‘our causes,’ or ‘our community,’ or ‘our followers,'” reads the op-ed. “As if it has become impossible to find words that speak to everyone. As if cinema can no longer unite.
- 3/19/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
After last year’s scandal over Roman Polanski’s director win, the 46th Cesar Awards, France’s highest film honors, which took place on Friday in the presence of nominees, has been the subject of vitriolic criticism from industry figures.
Some have claimed that the spectacle was so vulgar that it has tarnished the image of French cinema and will discourage audiences from returning to theaters when they finally reopen. But, in fact, the awards were a fitting encapsulation of an industry that’s increasingly at odds with itself.
The 2021 edition marked a new era for the Cesar Awards, which is now headed by Veronique Cayla, former president of Arte, and vice chaired by Eric Toledano, co-director of “The Intouchables,” who took over from Alain Terzian following an industry revolt over the lack of transparency and democracy within the institution. With the last six months, the operating model and corporate...
Some have claimed that the spectacle was so vulgar that it has tarnished the image of French cinema and will discourage audiences from returning to theaters when they finally reopen. But, in fact, the awards were a fitting encapsulation of an industry that’s increasingly at odds with itself.
The 2021 edition marked a new era for the Cesar Awards, which is now headed by Veronique Cayla, former president of Arte, and vice chaired by Eric Toledano, co-director of “The Intouchables,” who took over from Alain Terzian following an industry revolt over the lack of transparency and democracy within the institution. With the last six months, the operating model and corporate...
- 3/16/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Given the French state’s generous artist benefits, and the plight of creatives worldwide during the pandemic, Corinne Masiero’s behaviour rang hollow
Another year, another happening at the Césars ceremony, France’s film awards, which took place on Friday night. This year, amid the scatological jokes, sanctimonious, badly written speeches, and recriminations, an actor known for her fiery politics stood out. She appeared naked, covered in (probably fake) blood, and wearing dripping wet tampons as earrings. Nobody batted an eyelid in the audience, since the actor, Corinne Masiero, is a well-known face on French television, involved in all sorts of political agitprop. People in front of their TVs at home were less blase. Perhaps because some of them still look up to artists and regard cinema as an art form. Many of them felt terribly let down.
Masiero had a message for the French government. She had painted it on her breasts: “No culture,...
Another year, another happening at the Césars ceremony, France’s film awards, which took place on Friday night. This year, amid the scatological jokes, sanctimonious, badly written speeches, and recriminations, an actor known for her fiery politics stood out. She appeared naked, covered in (probably fake) blood, and wearing dripping wet tampons as earrings. Nobody batted an eyelid in the audience, since the actor, Corinne Masiero, is a well-known face on French television, involved in all sorts of political agitprop. People in front of their TVs at home were less blase. Perhaps because some of them still look up to artists and regard cinema as an art form. Many of them felt terribly let down.
Masiero had a message for the French government. She had painted it on her breasts: “No culture,...
- 3/15/2021
- by Agnès Poirier
- The Guardian - Film News
Updated: Albert Dupontel’s dark comedy Adieu Les Cons (Bye Bye Morons) was the big winner at tonight’s César Awards, scooping Best Film along with Director, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Production Design, during a muted in-person ceremony that nevertheless provided some notable moments. Chief among them was when actress Corinne Masiero stripped down to her birthday suit while presenting the award for Costume Design. The show, aired live and unencrypted on Canal Plus (meaning not only subscribers could watch), did not cut away from Masiero’s self-exhibition in support of France’s intermittent arts workers. The incident was met with shock, for sure, and began trending on Twitter, but it didn’t exactly elicit the same whoops and hollers in the limited César audience as did the 1974 Oscars streaker.
Masiero’s intervention was a commentary on the current state of the French industry, whose Covid-impacted workers have...
Masiero’s intervention was a commentary on the current state of the French industry, whose Covid-impacted workers have...
- 3/13/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
46th ceremony unfolded amid growing anger within French film industry over cinema closures.
Albert Dupontel’s Bye Bye Morons topped the awards at a politically-charged 46th Césars ceremony on Friday evening (March 12), marked by growing anger within the French film industry over the ongoing closure of cinemas and other cultural spaces as part of anti-Covid-19 measures.
Bye Bye Morons clinched seven Césars including best film, director, cinematography (Alexis Kavyrchine), best original screenplay (Dupontel), best supporting actor (Nicolas Marié), best production design (Carlos Conti) and the fledgeling César des Lycéens, which is voted on by 1,500 high school students.
Dupontel, who previously...
Albert Dupontel’s Bye Bye Morons topped the awards at a politically-charged 46th Césars ceremony on Friday evening (March 12), marked by growing anger within the French film industry over the ongoing closure of cinemas and other cultural spaces as part of anti-Covid-19 measures.
Bye Bye Morons clinched seven Césars including best film, director, cinematography (Alexis Kavyrchine), best original screenplay (Dupontel), best supporting actor (Nicolas Marié), best production design (Carlos Conti) and the fledgeling César des Lycéens, which is voted on by 1,500 high school students.
Dupontel, who previously...
- 3/13/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
French actress Corinne Masiero sent shockwaves through Paris’ Olympia concert hall during France’s César Awards ceremony this evening when she stripped off her clothes to appear entirely naked on stage. Across her breasts and torso was written, “No culture, no future.” The move was in support of artists and technicians across the country who have been impacted by work stoppages caused by the Covid crisis and the government’s response. Scrawled across her back was a message evidently destined for Prime Minister Jean Castex: “Give us back art, Jean.”
Masiero, who is a former César nominee for Louise Wimmer, and is also known for such films as Rust And Bone and TV series like long-running mockumentary Fait Pas Ci Fait Pas Ca and the current Capitaine Marleau, first appeared on stage in a donkey costume evoking 1970 Catherine Denueve-starrer Peau D...
Masiero, who is a former César nominee for Louise Wimmer, and is also known for such films as Rust And Bone and TV series like long-running mockumentary Fait Pas Ci Fait Pas Ca and the current Capitaine Marleau, first appeared on stage in a donkey costume evoking 1970 Catherine Denueve-starrer Peau D...
- 3/12/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Reform drive has hits early snag in drive for gender equality.
Two-thirds of the 184 new members of the French César Academy’s first democratically elected general assembly have signed an open letter expressing their shock at the automatic return of 18 historic members, who include controversial director Roman Polanski.
Actors Corinne Masiero, Antoine Reinartz; filmmakers Bertrand Bonello and Catherine Corsini; producers Saïd Ben Saïd, Carole Scotta and sales and distribution professionals Daniela Elster, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Mathieu Robinet, Ariane Toscan du Plantier and Agathe Valentin were among the 120 professionals who signed the statement released on Thursday evening.
“We were stunned to discover...
Two-thirds of the 184 new members of the French César Academy’s first democratically elected general assembly have signed an open letter expressing their shock at the automatic return of 18 historic members, who include controversial director Roman Polanski.
Actors Corinne Masiero, Antoine Reinartz; filmmakers Bertrand Bonello and Catherine Corsini; producers Saïd Ben Saïd, Carole Scotta and sales and distribution professionals Daniela Elster, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Mathieu Robinet, Ariane Toscan du Plantier and Agathe Valentin were among the 120 professionals who signed the statement released on Thursday evening.
“We were stunned to discover...
- 9/18/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s eighth joint feature won the Berlinale’s special Silver Bear this year.
Wild Bunch has secured a slew of sales on French directorial duo Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s comedy Delete History, which won the Berlinale’s special Silver Bear this year.
Deals tied up at the Berlinale’s European Film Market include to France (Ad Vitam), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Pathé), Germany (X Verleih), Spain (La Aventura Audiovisual), Italy (Officine Ubu), Portugal (Apm), Sweden (Njutafilms), ex-Yugoslavia (McF), Hungary (Cirko Film), Czech Republic (Film Europe) and Baltics (A-One).
Outside of Europe, it sold...
Wild Bunch has secured a slew of sales on French directorial duo Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s comedy Delete History, which won the Berlinale’s special Silver Bear this year.
Deals tied up at the Berlinale’s European Film Market include to France (Ad Vitam), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Pathé), Germany (X Verleih), Spain (La Aventura Audiovisual), Italy (Officine Ubu), Portugal (Apm), Sweden (Njutafilms), ex-Yugoslavia (McF), Hungary (Cirko Film), Czech Republic (Film Europe) and Baltics (A-One).
Outside of Europe, it sold...
- 3/6/2020
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
If you’ve ever felt frustrated when a website asks you to select photos of traffic lights in order to prove that you’re not a robot, or struggled for a way to keep all your internet passwords straight, then digital-age satire “Delete History” was made with you in mind. Like the spam folder on your Google Mail account, it’s stuffed to bursting with wry observations about how smartphones, social media and the modern world in general — innovations which were putatively intended to simplify our lives — appear to be complicating it instead.
In this laugh-out-loud, low-concept comedy from French directing team Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern (known for renegade road movies “Aaltra” and “Mammuth”), the thinnest of storylines unites a loose collection of gags involving a trio of middle-aged, middle-class neighbors each suffering from a host of 21st-century headaches. The big joke, such as it is, hinges on the...
In this laugh-out-loud, low-concept comedy from French directing team Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern (known for renegade road movies “Aaltra” and “Mammuth”), the thinnest of storylines unites a loose collection of gags involving a trio of middle-aged, middle-class neighbors each suffering from a host of 21st-century headaches. The big joke, such as it is, hinges on the...
- 2/24/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlinale lineup already includes films from Jia Zhangke, Matías Piñeiro, and more, but now the competition slate has arrived and it’s an incredibly promising selection. Headed by Carlo Chatrian, it includes many of our most-anticipated films of the year with Christian Petzold’s Undine, Hong Sang-soo’s The Woman Who Ran, Tsai Ming-Liang’s Days, Philippe Garrel’s The Salt of Tears, Abel Ferrara’s Siberia, and Caetano Gotardo & Marco Dutra’s All the Dead Ones, plus recent festival favorites: Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow and Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
Check out the lineup below and return for our coverage.
Competition
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Germany / Netherlands
by Burhan Qurbani
with Welket Bungué, Jella Haase, Albrecht Schuch, Joachim Król, Annabelle Mandeng, Nils Verkooijen, Richard Fouofié Djimeli
World premiere
Dau. Natasha
Germany / Ukraine / United Kingdom / Russian Federation
by Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel
with Natalia Berezhnaya, Olga Shkabarnya, Vladimir Azhippo,...
Check out the lineup below and return for our coverage.
Competition
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Germany / Netherlands
by Burhan Qurbani
with Welket Bungué, Jella Haase, Albrecht Schuch, Joachim Król, Annabelle Mandeng, Nils Verkooijen, Richard Fouofié Djimeli
World premiere
Dau. Natasha
Germany / Ukraine / United Kingdom / Russian Federation
by Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel
with Natalia Berezhnaya, Olga Shkabarnya, Vladimir Azhippo,...
- 1/29/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Berlin International Film Festival on Wednesday morning revealed the main competition lineup and gala selections for festival’s 70th edition.
The festival, which begins February 20, will screen 18 films in competition, including movies from Sally Potter, Kelly Reichardt, and Eliza Hittman. Six are from female directors.
Among the gala presentations is Pixar’s” Onward.” The Dan Scanlon-helmed urban fantasy includes the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, Mel Rodriguez, Kyle Bornheimer, Lena Waithe, and Ali Wong.
Here is the complete list:
Competition
“Berlin Alexanderplatz” (Germany/Netherlands)
Director: Burhan Qurbani
Cast: Welket Bungué, Jella Haase, Albrecht Schuch, Joachim Król, Annabelle Mandeng, Nils Verkooijen, and Richard Fouofié Djimeli
“Dau. Natasha” (Germany/Ukraine/United Kingdom/Russia)
Directors: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel
Cast: Natalia Berezhnaya, Olga Shkabarnya, Vladimir Azhippo, Alexei Blinov, and Luc Bigé
“Domangchin yeoja” (“The Woman Who Ran”) (South Korea)
Director: Hong Sangsoo
Cast: Kim Minhee,...
The festival, which begins February 20, will screen 18 films in competition, including movies from Sally Potter, Kelly Reichardt, and Eliza Hittman. Six are from female directors.
Among the gala presentations is Pixar’s” Onward.” The Dan Scanlon-helmed urban fantasy includes the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, Mel Rodriguez, Kyle Bornheimer, Lena Waithe, and Ali Wong.
Here is the complete list:
Competition
“Berlin Alexanderplatz” (Germany/Netherlands)
Director: Burhan Qurbani
Cast: Welket Bungué, Jella Haase, Albrecht Schuch, Joachim Król, Annabelle Mandeng, Nils Verkooijen, and Richard Fouofié Djimeli
“Dau. Natasha” (Germany/Ukraine/United Kingdom/Russia)
Directors: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel
Cast: Natalia Berezhnaya, Olga Shkabarnya, Vladimir Azhippo, Alexei Blinov, and Luc Bigé
“Domangchin yeoja” (“The Woman Who Ran”) (South Korea)
Director: Hong Sangsoo
Cast: Kim Minhee,...
- 1/29/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled its 2020 line-up, with 18 films playing in competition from directors such as Abel Ferrara, Sally Potter, Christian Petzold, Hong Sangsoo, Kelly Reichardt and Eliza Hittman.
Abel Ferrara’s Willem Dafoe starrer “Siberia” is a world premiere in competition, as is Sally Potter’s “The Roads Not Taken.”
Among the U.S. films at the Berlinale, Reichardt’s “First Cow” is an international premiere, and so too is Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.”
Pixar’s latest animation, “Onward”, also has its international premiere out of competition in the Special Galas section.
Previous Berlin Silver Bear winner Christian Petzold’s latest, “Undine”, world premieres, while Iranian director Mohammed Rasoulof, who is not allowed to travel outside his home country, world premieres his latest, “There is No Evil.”
Six out of the 18 films in competition are helmed by female directors.
The 70th edition of the festival...
Abel Ferrara’s Willem Dafoe starrer “Siberia” is a world premiere in competition, as is Sally Potter’s “The Roads Not Taken.”
Among the U.S. films at the Berlinale, Reichardt’s “First Cow” is an international premiere, and so too is Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.”
Pixar’s latest animation, “Onward”, also has its international premiere out of competition in the Special Galas section.
Previous Berlin Silver Bear winner Christian Petzold’s latest, “Undine”, world premieres, while Iranian director Mohammed Rasoulof, who is not allowed to travel outside his home country, world premieres his latest, “There is No Evil.”
Six out of the 18 films in competition are helmed by female directors.
The 70th edition of the festival...
- 1/29/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival revealed its main competition lineup and additional galas this morning at a press conference in the German capital.
The lineup includes new films by Sally Potter, Kelly Reichardt, Abel Ferrara, Christian Petzold, Hong Sangsoo and Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (who is unable to leave Iran due to a travel ban). Scroll down for the lineup in full.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian confirmed that all main cast and all directors – other than Rasoulof – are due to attend the festival. Guests are set to include Hillary Clinton, who is the subject of Nanette Burstein’s docu-series Hillary; Stateless star and producer Cate Blanchett; Willem Dafoe, star of Abel Ferrara’s Siberia; and Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning and Salma Hayek, the stars of Potter’s drama The Roads Not Taken.
The 18-strong competition lineup includes six films by women directors. Last year, 17 films were selected for the competition with seven helmed by women.
The lineup includes new films by Sally Potter, Kelly Reichardt, Abel Ferrara, Christian Petzold, Hong Sangsoo and Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (who is unable to leave Iran due to a travel ban). Scroll down for the lineup in full.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian confirmed that all main cast and all directors – other than Rasoulof – are due to attend the festival. Guests are set to include Hillary Clinton, who is the subject of Nanette Burstein’s docu-series Hillary; Stateless star and producer Cate Blanchett; Willem Dafoe, star of Abel Ferrara’s Siberia; and Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning and Salma Hayek, the stars of Potter’s drama The Roads Not Taken.
The 18-strong competition lineup includes six films by women directors. Last year, 17 films were selected for the competition with seven helmed by women.
- 1/29/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Effacer l’historique
Kooky Belgian duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine will present their ninth collaboration in 2020, Effacer l’historique, another exercise about social misfits attempting to succeed in tasks which seem woefully out of their depth. Sylvie Pialat and Benoit Quainon are producing, starring a lead trio of Blanche Gardin (who will also be appearing in Bruno Dumont’s latest), Denis Podalydes, and Corinne Masiero. Some of the directors’ usual suspects are also on hand in the cast, including Yolande Moreau, Benoit Poelvoorde, Bouli Lanners, and Michel Houellebecq. And they’ll be joined by American actor Denis O’Hare. The filmmakers reunite with their regular Dp, Hugues Poulain.…...
Kooky Belgian duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine will present their ninth collaboration in 2020, Effacer l’historique, another exercise about social misfits attempting to succeed in tasks which seem woefully out of their depth. Sylvie Pialat and Benoit Quainon are producing, starring a lead trio of Blanche Gardin (who will also be appearing in Bruno Dumont’s latest), Denis Podalydes, and Corinne Masiero. Some of the directors’ usual suspects are also on hand in the cast, including Yolande Moreau, Benoit Poelvoorde, Bouli Lanners, and Michel Houellebecq. And they’ll be joined by American actor Denis O’Hare. The filmmakers reunite with their regular Dp, Hugues Poulain.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Slate also features directorial duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delépine’s comedy drama Delete History.
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.
The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.
The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.
In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.
The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.
The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.
In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...
- 10/30/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Blanche Gardin, Denis Podalydès and Corinne Masiero topline this production being staged by Les Films du Worso and sold by Wild Bunch. The shoot for Effacer l’historique (lit. “Delete the History”) by Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine has been in full swing since 29 July. This is the ninth feature by the directorial duo, following I Feel Good (unveiled on the Piazza Grande at last year’s Locarno Film Festival), Saint Amour (out of competition at Berlin in 2016), Nde (Near Death Experience), Le grand soir (Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2012), Mammuth (in competition at the 2010 Berlinale), Louise-Michel (Best Screenplay Award at San Sebastián in 2008 and Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2009), Avida (out of competition at Cannes in 2006) and Aaltra (in competition at Rotterdam in 2004). As for the cast of their new opus, the...
Paris — Far from a dumping ground, the months of January and February have become synonymous in France with the kinds of highly polished crowd-pleasing comedies that dominate the annual box-office.
This year is no exception, only nestled among the likely blockbusters “Serial Bad Weddings 2” and “City Hunter” is Louis-Julien Petit’s socially minded dramedy “Invisibles.” The story of a group of social workers fighting to keep a woman’s homeless shelter from closing, the film has opened to significant box-office numbers in these early weeks of year, and that’s no accident of timing.
Petit took inspiration from author-filmmaker Claire Lajeunie’s documentary and book about France’s invisible women and built a crowd-pleasing comedy around the subject. Produced by French shingle Elemiah and being sold by Charades, the film mixes well-known comedic stars like Audrey Lamy and Noémie Lvovsky with several non-professional actresses, a number of whom also appeared in the original doc.
This year is no exception, only nestled among the likely blockbusters “Serial Bad Weddings 2” and “City Hunter” is Louis-Julien Petit’s socially minded dramedy “Invisibles.” The story of a group of social workers fighting to keep a woman’s homeless shelter from closing, the film has opened to significant box-office numbers in these early weeks of year, and that’s no accident of timing.
Petit took inspiration from author-filmmaker Claire Lajeunie’s documentary and book about France’s invisible women and built a crowd-pleasing comedy around the subject. Produced by French shingle Elemiah and being sold by Charades, the film mixes well-known comedic stars like Audrey Lamy and Noémie Lvovsky with several non-professional actresses, a number of whom also appeared in the original doc.
- 1/18/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The upcoming psychological thriller is the feature debut of Carlo Mirabella-Davis after a number of award-winning short films.
French sales company Charades has a revealed the first image of Haley Bennett in Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s upcoming psychological thriller Swallow.
Bennett, best known for her role opposite Emily Blunt in The Girl On The Train, plays a pregnant young woman, whose seemingly harmonious existence takes an alarming turn when she begins compulsively and uncontrollably eating dangerous objects.
It Mirabella-Davis’s first feature after a number of award-winning short films. Charades kicks off sales on the feature at the Afm this week.
French sales company Charades has a revealed the first image of Haley Bennett in Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s upcoming psychological thriller Swallow.
Bennett, best known for her role opposite Emily Blunt in The Girl On The Train, plays a pregnant young woman, whose seemingly harmonious existence takes an alarming turn when she begins compulsively and uncontrollably eating dangerous objects.
It Mirabella-Davis’s first feature after a number of award-winning short films. Charades kicks off sales on the feature at the Afm this week.
- 10/29/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Paul Higgins, Kate Dickie, Jérôme Kircher, Corinne Masiero | Written and Directed by Tom Geens
John (Higgins) and Karen (Dickie) used to have it all. They had uprooted from Scotland with their son to a small, yet idyllic cottage in the beautiful Pyrenees Mountain range of France. However, tragedy struck by the way of a fire that not only left them homeless, but even worse; childless. With their life destroyed, the pair decide to shut themselves off from the rest of the world and live off the land and take shelter in an isolated cave. After Karen is bitten by a deadly spider, John is forced to make his way in to the nearby town in search of some medicine for his wife. Although desperate to save his wife, an apparition of his recently deceased son causes him to panic and he begins to retreat. Thankfully, local farmer Andre (Kircher...
John (Higgins) and Karen (Dickie) used to have it all. They had uprooted from Scotland with their son to a small, yet idyllic cottage in the beautiful Pyrenees Mountain range of France. However, tragedy struck by the way of a fire that not only left them homeless, but even worse; childless. With their life destroyed, the pair decide to shut themselves off from the rest of the world and live off the land and take shelter in an isolated cave. After Karen is bitten by a deadly spider, John is forced to make his way in to the nearby town in search of some medicine for his wife. Although desperate to save his wife, an apparition of his recently deceased son causes him to panic and he begins to retreat. Thankfully, local farmer Andre (Kircher...
- 4/27/2016
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
Tom Geens feature centres on a couple living in a hole in a forest.
Principal photography has wrapped in Midi-Pyrenees for Couple In A Hole, a drama from writer/director Tom Geens and producer Zorana Piggott.
The film will finish shooting at 3 Mills Studios in London over the next five weeks.
The film stars Paul Higgins (Red Road, Utopia), Kate Dickie (Prometheus, Filth), Corinne Masiero and Jerome Kircher and tells the story of a British couple living in a hole in the middle of a vast forest, somwhere in France.
Piggott is producing the film on behalf of 011 Productions/Chicken Factory, in co-production with Belgium’s A Private View and France’s Les Enrages.
The film is being financed by the BFI Film Fund, Flanders Audiovisual Fund and the Region Midi-Pyrenees, in association with Met Film and Blunt Pictures.
Paradiso Filmed Entertainment is distributing the film in Benelux, and Verve Pictures will handle distribution in the UK...
Principal photography has wrapped in Midi-Pyrenees for Couple In A Hole, a drama from writer/director Tom Geens and producer Zorana Piggott.
The film will finish shooting at 3 Mills Studios in London over the next five weeks.
The film stars Paul Higgins (Red Road, Utopia), Kate Dickie (Prometheus, Filth), Corinne Masiero and Jerome Kircher and tells the story of a British couple living in a hole in the middle of a vast forest, somwhere in France.
Piggott is producing the film on behalf of 011 Productions/Chicken Factory, in co-production with Belgium’s A Private View and France’s Les Enrages.
The film is being financed by the BFI Film Fund, Flanders Audiovisual Fund and the Region Midi-Pyrenees, in association with Met Film and Blunt Pictures.
Paradiso Filmed Entertainment is distributing the film in Benelux, and Verve Pictures will handle distribution in the UK...
- 7/1/2014
- ScreenDaily
Over on the other side of the English Channel, the incredible true story of Toni Musulin was a huge, national news event that was as inspiring as it was discomforting when taking place back in 2009. While over here we plead ignorance on the matter, Philippe Godeau’s compelling thriller 11.6 is all the better for it, as we are taken on a variety of quite unbelievable twists and turns.
Toni Musulin is played by François Cluzet, a hard-working, introverted security van driver who dedicates his life to his profession. However as he struggles to get on with his boss – and leads a somewhat unhappy life at home with his partner Marion (Corinne Masiero), he decides to attempt something outrageous; to single-handedly stage the greatest robbery in France’s history, without the use of guns or violence – with the grand total of €11.6 million at stake.
This hard-boiled slice of French cinema is complete with a dark,...
Toni Musulin is played by François Cluzet, a hard-working, introverted security van driver who dedicates his life to his profession. However as he struggles to get on with his boss – and leads a somewhat unhappy life at home with his partner Marion (Corinne Masiero), he decides to attempt something outrageous; to single-handedly stage the greatest robbery in France’s history, without the use of guns or violence – with the grand total of €11.6 million at stake.
This hard-boiled slice of French cinema is complete with a dark,...
- 10/18/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The French drama Rust and Bone explores the lives of two adults who are drawn to each other while dealing with the misfortunes that have befallen them. Pieced together from a book of short stories of the same name by Canadian author Craig Davidson, director (and co-writer) Jacques Audiard and co-writer Thomas Bidegain have created a compelling narrative. Rust and Bone also features exquisite performances by Matthias Schoenaerts and Marion Cotillard (who snagged a lot of award nominations for the role).
Unemployed Alain (Schoenaerts) brings his young son Sam (Armand Verdure) to Antibes, France where they can crash at his sister Anna's (Corinne Masiero) house. (Audiard purposefully avoids explaining any of Alain’s backstory, preferring to focus the story on the present.) Anna, who has her own issues from stealing expired food from the grocery store she works at, feels overwhelmed at having to take care of Sam since Alain...
Unemployed Alain (Schoenaerts) brings his young son Sam (Armand Verdure) to Antibes, France where they can crash at his sister Anna's (Corinne Masiero) house. (Audiard purposefully avoids explaining any of Alain’s backstory, preferring to focus the story on the present.) Anna, who has her own issues from stealing expired food from the grocery store she works at, feels overwhelmed at having to take care of Sam since Alain...
- 3/19/2013
- by John Keith
- JustPressPlay.net
Hollywood's Costner takes home Honorary Award Speaking of Hollywood, the French Academy has frequently given its Honorary César (an equivalent to the Lifetime Achievement Award) to some curious group of Hollywood celebrities. Among those are Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Quentin Tarantino, Hugh Grant, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Spike Lee, Andie McDowell, and Sylvester Stallone. This year, they've made another curious choice: Kevin Costner, whose Honorary Award was a tribute to his "fabulous contribution to cinematic history." Costner, among whose movie credits as actor and/or director are Dances with Wolves, Bull Durham, JFK, The Bodyguard, The Postman, and Waterworld, thanked the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences for embracing him "for who I am." Other César winners Among this year's other César winners were, in the supporting categories, Valérie Benguigui and Guillaume de Tonquédec for What's in a Name? / Le Prénom, directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere.
- 2/23/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Rust And Bone
Review by LondonFilmFan
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Céline Sallette, Armand Verdure, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners | Written by Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain | Directed by Jacques Audiard
Ali (Schoenaerts) dreams of becoming a professional boxer. When he is suddenly put in charge of his five year old son, he moves in with his sister for support. Whilst working as a nightclub bouncer, he meets the beautiful and confident killer whale trainer, Stephanie (Cotillard). He gives her his number, not expecting that she will ever call. After being the victim of a tragic accident, Stephanie surprisingly turns to Ali for support. These lost souls discover new meaning in life together when Ali enters the dangerous world of underground boxing.
The latest film from A Prophet’s Jacques Audiard is an overblown melodrama starring Marion Cotillard that offers moments of brilliance bogged down by the clumsy script surrounding them. A...
Review by LondonFilmFan
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Céline Sallette, Armand Verdure, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners | Written by Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain | Directed by Jacques Audiard
Ali (Schoenaerts) dreams of becoming a professional boxer. When he is suddenly put in charge of his five year old son, he moves in with his sister for support. Whilst working as a nightclub bouncer, he meets the beautiful and confident killer whale trainer, Stephanie (Cotillard). He gives her his number, not expecting that she will ever call. After being the victim of a tragic accident, Stephanie surprisingly turns to Ali for support. These lost souls discover new meaning in life together when Ali enters the dangerous world of underground boxing.
The latest film from A Prophet’s Jacques Audiard is an overblown melodrama starring Marion Cotillard that offers moments of brilliance bogged down by the clumsy script surrounding them. A...
- 2/20/2013
- by Guest
- Nerdly
They are two people accustomed to ruling their physical domains with muscle, sex and beauty. They don't ask themselves a lot of questions about what could stand some improvement in their inner lives. They will rely the powers given them. Ali is powerfully-built and roughly handsome. He dreams of becoming a champion of mixed martial arts fighting. At present he is a nightclub bouncer, firmly exercising control over the hopefuls swimming out of the night. Stéphanie is a trainer at a seaquarium, using body language and dead fish to command a tank filled with whales to rise up from the water. They live near Cannes, celebrated for launching more successful people up a red carpet.
Ali is presented with a challenge he can't train for. He takes responsibility for his young son Sam, At the seaquarium, Stéphanie is majestically ordering a killer whale to rise up a few feet in...
Ali is presented with a challenge he can't train for. He takes responsibility for his young son Sam, At the seaquarium, Stéphanie is majestically ordering a killer whale to rise up a few feet in...
- 2/8/2013
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
The nominations for the César Awards aka the French Oscars were announced. "Farewell, My Queen," "Amour," "Camille Redouble," "In the House," "Rust & Bone," "Holy Motors," and "What's My Name" are competing for the Best Picture category. We'll find out the winners on February 22nd.
Here's the full list of nominees of the 2013 César Awards:
Best Picture
Farewell, My Queen
Amour
Camille Redouble
In The House
Rust & Bone
Holy Motors
What.s In A Name
Best Director
Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
Michael Haneke, Amour
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
François Ozon, In The House
Jacques Audiard, Rust & Bone
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actress
Catherine Frot, Les Sauveurs Du Palais
Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
Corinne Masiero, Louise Wimmer
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Léa Seydoux, Farewell, My Queen
Hélène Vincent, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actor
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Cherchez Hortense
Patrick Bruel, What...
Here's the full list of nominees of the 2013 César Awards:
Best Picture
Farewell, My Queen
Amour
Camille Redouble
In The House
Rust & Bone
Holy Motors
What.s In A Name
Best Director
Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
Michael Haneke, Amour
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
François Ozon, In The House
Jacques Audiard, Rust & Bone
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actress
Catherine Frot, Les Sauveurs Du Palais
Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
Corinne Masiero, Louise Wimmer
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Léa Seydoux, Farewell, My Queen
Hélène Vincent, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actor
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Cherchez Hortense
Patrick Bruel, What...
- 1/27/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Chicago – It’s been three years since Jacques Audiard made a sizable splash in American art houses with “A Prophet,” a spellbinding picture that certainly ranks as one of the great crime films of the last decade. By following an Arab youth through his punishing sentence in a French prison, it provided audiences with an unforgettable portrait of corrupted innocence.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Devoid of escapist shortcuts, Audiard’s anti-hero was forced to commit acts of unspeakable evil in order to ensure his survival. By the time he was freed, the once vulnerable subordinate was a formidable mafia kingpin, thus inferring that the prison system creates criminals rather than cures them. Prison stuck to the film’s protagonist like an irreparable wound. The question wasn’t how to remedy the wound, it was how to live with it.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Rust and Bone” in our reviews section.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Devoid of escapist shortcuts, Audiard’s anti-hero was forced to commit acts of unspeakable evil in order to ensure his survival. By the time he was freed, the once vulnerable subordinate was a formidable mafia kingpin, thus inferring that the prison system creates criminals rather than cures them. Prison stuck to the film’s protagonist like an irreparable wound. The question wasn’t how to remedy the wound, it was how to live with it.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Rust and Bone” in our reviews section.
- 12/20/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
What is it we do to survive? Who is it we love? Who is it we fight? What are the forces seen and unseen that push our lives in directions we could have never expected? These are the questions that Jacques Audiard tackles in his latest, "Rust And Bone," a beautiful, moving story of two fractured lives that somehow, together, combine into a single (if unconventional) whole. Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) and his son Sam (Armand Verdure) are doing what they can to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Living on the street, eating what they can find or salvage, they take refuge, and earn some semblance of stability, with Ali's estranged sister Anna (Corinne Masiero). She too is doing what she can to make ends meet, working part-time as a cashier in a supermarket, in addition to temporarily looking after dogs for a breeder. In...
- 11/20/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone starring Marion Cotillard and Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, adds 3 new clips. The Sony Pictures Classics film scripted by Audiard and Thomas Bidegain based on the story by Craig Davidson, opens in theaters from November 23rd. Also known as De rouille et d'os, the cast of the film includes Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, Jean-Michel Correia and Mourad Frarema In Rust and Bone, Ali (Schoenaerts) finds himself with a five-year-old child on his hands. Sam (Verdure) is his son, but he hardly knows him. Homeless, penniless and friendless, Ali takes refuge with his sister Anna (Masiero) in Antibes, in the south of France. There things improve immediately. She puts them up in her garage, she takes the child under her wing and the weather is glorious.
- 11/12/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone starring Marion Cotillard and Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, adds 3 new clips. The Sony Pictures Classics film scripted by Audiard and Thomas Bidegain based on the story by Craig Davidson, opens in theaters from November 23rd. Also known as De rouille et d'os, the cast of the film includes Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, Jean-Michel Correia and Mourad Frarema In Rust and Bone, Ali (Schoenaerts) finds himself with a five-year-old child on his hands. Sam (Verdure) is his son, but he hardly knows him. Homeless, penniless and friendless, Ali takes refuge with his sister Anna (Masiero) in Antibes, in the south of France. There things improve immediately. She puts them up in her garage, she takes the child under her wing and the weather is glorious.
- 11/12/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Brilliant, excellent, beautiful… You can find that on every single poster these days. But, let’s be honest, Rust And Bone, an upcoming Jacques Audiard‘s movie (opens this month, by the way) definitely looks like a powerfully human and life-affirming drama. You already had a chance to see some cool clips, TV spots and trailers for the movie, and today we’re here to share the latest quad poster for the whole thing. Hope you’ll like it!
Audiard co-wrote the Rust And Bone script together with Thomas Bidegain, and as we previously reported the story centers on an unemployed 25-year-old man played by Matthias Schoenaеrts who falls in love with a killer whale trainer, played by Marion Cotillard. The rest of the cast also includes Bouli Lanners, Celine Sallette and Corinne Masiero.
It all begins in the North of France. Ali suddenly finds himself with a five-year-old child on his hands.
Audiard co-wrote the Rust And Bone script together with Thomas Bidegain, and as we previously reported the story centers on an unemployed 25-year-old man played by Matthias Schoenaеrts who falls in love with a killer whale trainer, played by Marion Cotillard. The rest of the cast also includes Bouli Lanners, Celine Sallette and Corinne Masiero.
It all begins in the North of France. Ali suddenly finds himself with a five-year-old child on his hands.
- 11/7/2012
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
An orca-related catastrophe drives Marion Cotillard into the arms of a boxer in this tremendous love story
Passion is a word casually thrown around in the movies; so few films come anywhere near it, but Jacques Audiard's film really is passionate, surging out of the screen like a tidal wave. Brutal realism is offset by romanticism, idealism, even a flawed human grandeur. There is an insistent swoon in the sunlit moments of epiphany and in the soundtrack, mixing pop tracks – Katy Perry, Bruce Springsteen, the B-52s – with a conventional orchestral score by Alexandre Desplat.
The story is adapted from short stories by the Canadian author Craig Davidson: Ali, artlessly and unselfconsciously played by newcomer Matthias Schoenaerts, is a Belgian guy who has been earning some cash as a bouncer and security guard, hoping to make it big in boxing and kickboxing. (The title refers to the taste...
Passion is a word casually thrown around in the movies; so few films come anywhere near it, but Jacques Audiard's film really is passionate, surging out of the screen like a tidal wave. Brutal realism is offset by romanticism, idealism, even a flawed human grandeur. There is an insistent swoon in the sunlit moments of epiphany and in the soundtrack, mixing pop tracks – Katy Perry, Bruce Springsteen, the B-52s – with a conventional orchestral score by Alexandre Desplat.
The story is adapted from short stories by the Canadian author Craig Davidson: Ali, artlessly and unselfconsciously played by newcomer Matthias Schoenaerts, is a Belgian guy who has been earning some cash as a bouncer and security guard, hoping to make it big in boxing and kickboxing. (The title refers to the taste...
- 11/2/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Following its Best Picture win at the BFI London Film Festival this month, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone will be arriving in UK theatres this Friday, and the anticipation couldn’t be higher.
Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts star in what promises to be one of the year’s best films, and after catching the Us trailer for the film earlier in the month, we’ve got a new clip to share, courtesy of the Huffington Post.
“Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.”
Audiard, the BAFTA-winning writer-director behind A Prophet, is directing from a script he co-wrote with Thomas Bidegain (A Prophet), with Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, and Jean-Michel Correia completing the supporting cast.
Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts star in what promises to be one of the year’s best films, and after catching the Us trailer for the film earlier in the month, we’ve got a new clip to share, courtesy of the Huffington Post.
“Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.”
Audiard, the BAFTA-winning writer-director behind A Prophet, is directing from a script he co-wrote with Thomas Bidegain (A Prophet), with Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, and Jean-Michel Correia completing the supporting cast.
- 10/30/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Title: Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os) Sony Pictures Classics Director: Jacques Audiard Screenwriter: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain from Craig Davidson’s book Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Bouli Lanners, Celine Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Mourad Frarema, Jean-Michel Correia Screened at : Sony, NYC,10/19/12 Opens: November 23, 2012 In one of Rust and Bone’s most surreal scene, in which some viewers may be reminded of Les yeux Sans visage, Stephanie (Marion Cotillard) wakes up from a deep sleep and finds herself in a hospital bed bathed in a humming blue Neon light above. She feels disoriented, wants to get out of bed, takes the blanket off and finds, to [ Read More ]
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- 10/21/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Debuting at Cannes this year to very strong reviews – you can read our review here – Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone has been one of the most anticipated films of the year, and with its release coming in the height of awards season next month, we could well be seeing its star, Marion Cotillard, competing for her second Oscar following La Vie en rose.
We saw the fantastic UK trailer for the film last month, and now its Us distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, have released the Us variant, which is essentially identical, switching out the critics’ reviews with North American outlets.
“Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.”
Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead) stars alongside Cotillard in the lead,...
We saw the fantastic UK trailer for the film last month, and now its Us distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, have released the Us variant, which is essentially identical, switching out the critics’ reviews with North American outlets.
“Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.”
Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead) stars alongside Cotillard in the lead,...
- 10/19/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced its red carpet Centerpiece Galas and Special Screenings . comprised of award season contenders and the year.s most highly anticipated works from film masters, moving image icons and breakthrough talents . for AFI Fest 2012 presented by Audi. This year.s line up includes feature films of iconic figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, prolific filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, as well as non-fiction and inspired-by stories about the Central Park Five and West of Memphis teenagers, Southeast Asia tsunami survivors and much more.
As previously announced, the World Premiere of Hitchcock (Dir Sacha Gervasi) is the Opening Night Gala and the World Premiere of Lincoln (Dir Steven Spielberg) is the Closing Night Gala.
The Centerpiece Galas are Life Of Pi in 3D (Dir Ang Lee); On The Road (Dir Walter Salles);Rise Of The Guardians in 3D (Dir Peter Ramsey...
As previously announced, the World Premiere of Hitchcock (Dir Sacha Gervasi) is the Opening Night Gala and the World Premiere of Lincoln (Dir Steven Spielberg) is the Closing Night Gala.
The Centerpiece Galas are Life Of Pi in 3D (Dir Ang Lee); On The Road (Dir Walter Salles);Rise Of The Guardians in 3D (Dir Peter Ramsey...
- 10/11/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rust and Bone follows the character of Alain (Matthias Schoenaerts) as he tries to make his way through life as best he can. We first see him with his son, Sam (Armand Verdure), on a train, collecting scrap food from receptacles. They’re heading towards his sister, Anna (Corinne Masiero), who he’s planning to stay with for a while. He ends up getting a job with a security company and has a chance encounter with a woman, Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), who trains whales at a water park. There is an accident at the park, and Stephanie ends up losing her legs. The film takes us through Alain’s experiences as he sees all of these relationships through. Alain is a character of much contrivance. He comes off mostly as a drifter with little to his name. His inability to pity Stephanie is what benefits her as we watch her recovery, but...
- 9/8/2012
- by Andrew Robinson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Day One of the Toronto International Film Festival is almost in the books. Three movies down, one more to go. (And that one has Kristen Stewart in it … do you think it will draw a crowd?) The festival officially “opens” Thursday evening with a screening of Rian Johnson’s “Looper” (which we reviewed earlier today). But here are some snapshot reactions to the rest of the films I’ve managed to see so far. “Amour” The Who’s lyrics resonate deeply following a screening of Michael Haneke’s “Amour” – I hope I die before I get old. Perhaps, then, I’ll be spared the grief and heartache associated with dying – feelings and experiences that are personified with gut-wrenching precision by Haneke’s two spectacular actors, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, in the powerful “Amour.” She plays Anne, a doting Parisian wife and former piano...
- 9/6/2012
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) returned to Cannes this year with Rust and Bone, his follow-up to the Oscar-nominated A Prophet. The film debuted to excellent early reviews – you can read our own review here – and will be making its North American premiere at Tiff next month.
Marion Cotillard (The Dark Knight Rises) and Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead) take the lead, and now we’ve got a handful of new images of the two from the film.
“Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.”
Audiard is directing from a script he co-wrote with Thomas Bidegain (A Prophet), with Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, and Jean-Michel Correia completing the supporting cast.
Rust and Bone will be released...
Marion Cotillard (The Dark Knight Rises) and Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead) take the lead, and now we’ve got a handful of new images of the two from the film.
“Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.”
Audiard is directing from a script he co-wrote with Thomas Bidegain (A Prophet), with Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, and Jean-Michel Correia completing the supporting cast.
Rust and Bone will be released...
- 8/23/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Back for the third time in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival where he has already been awarded twice (Best Screenplay in 1996 with A Self-Made Hero and Grand Prize in 2009 for A Prophet ), Jacques Audiard has once again made a hit with his sixth feature film, Rust & Bone.
It’s a new masterly work in which the director manages to express his immense talent in two spheres with very complex alchemy, melodrama and social film noir, all this directed with cinematic science consumed and carried by two exceptional actors who find light in the heart of darkness: French star Marion Cotillard and actor revelation Matthias Schoenaerts.
Diving as usual into the great depths of a society that he observes frankly, Jacques Audiard this time orchestrates an astounding love story with echos of the Beauty and the Beast, striking the iron of his extremely well-mastered intensity on the friction point...
It’s a new masterly work in which the director manages to express his immense talent in two spheres with very complex alchemy, melodrama and social film noir, all this directed with cinematic science consumed and carried by two exceptional actors who find light in the heart of darkness: French star Marion Cotillard and actor revelation Matthias Schoenaerts.
Diving as usual into the great depths of a society that he observes frankly, Jacques Audiard this time orchestrates an astounding love story with echos of the Beauty and the Beast, striking the iron of his extremely well-mastered intensity on the friction point...
- 5/18/2012
- by Cineuropa
- DearCinema.com
Jacques Audiard's moving love story, which surges out of the screen like a flood tide, deserves to be awash with awards
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story; Rust and Bone is a tale of a miraculous friendship which evolves into an enthralling and moving romance, wonderfully acted by Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts. Jacques Audiard directs, and his screenplay, co-written with Thomas Bidegain, is freely adapted from characters in the short story collection of the same title, by the American author Craig Davidson. This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.
She plays Stephanie, a young woman who trains huge orca whales at the Marineland park; in response to theatrical gestures from Stephanie,...
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story; Rust and Bone is a tale of a miraculous friendship which evolves into an enthralling and moving romance, wonderfully acted by Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts. Jacques Audiard directs, and his screenplay, co-written with Thomas Bidegain, is freely adapted from characters in the short story collection of the same title, by the American author Craig Davidson. This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.
She plays Stephanie, a young woman who trains huge orca whales at the Marineland park; in response to theatrical gestures from Stephanie,...
- 5/17/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Jacques Audiard Writers: Jacques Audiard (screenplay), Thomas Bidegain (screenplay), Craig Davidson (story) Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Celine Salette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, Jean-Michel Correia There is something about Jacques Audiard's latest film, Rust & Bone (which screened in competition at Cannes 2012), that calls upon my bad memories of Oskar Röhler's adaptation of Michel Houellebecq's novel Elementary Particles. Though Craig Davidson's short stories belong to the prehistory of Audiard's project, too many of the source elements were lost in translation. Like Röhler, Audiard focuses on the main, most dramatic events of his two characters; the narration expands upon two accidents, and the story in between is filled with naturalistic episodes that seem deprived of authentic psychology. Having in mind (the great!) A Prophet, I was expecting more than an assemblage of tragic attractions that should have been shocking enough to keep the ball rolling.
- 5/17/2012
- by Anna Bielak
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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